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We consider a long-term contractual relationship in which a buyer procures a fixed quantity of a product from a supplier and then sells it on the market. The production cost is private information and evolves randomly over time. The solution to this dynamic principal-agent problem involves a...
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We revisit the question whether commodities should be included in investors' portfolios. We employ for the first time a stochastic dominance efficiency (SDE) approach to construct optimal portfolios with and without commodities and we evaluate their comparative performance. SDE circumvents the...
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Stock and oil relationship is usually time-varying and depends on the current economic conditions. In this study, we propose a new Dynamic Stochastic Mixed data frequency sampling (DSM) copula model, that decomposes the stock-oil relationship into a short-run dynamic stochastic component and a...
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. We consider a stylized repeated procurement framework in which a buyer awards a contract over time to two firms with …When procurement contracts are awarded through competitive tendering participating firms commit ex ante to fulfil a set …
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also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end …, we analyze the transactions completed in the period 2004-2007 through the Italian Government's e-procurement platform …, that is, the marketplace managed by the Italian Public Procurement Agency (Consip S.p.A.). Although descriptive statistics …
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